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first paul tsongas started talking about gay issues then bill clinton appeared at the palace theater in may of '92 before a gay audience, before television cameras and national political reporters and made some very concrete promises to the gay crowd he was the presumive nominee then and somebody whose position hadn't done that before and it seemed to me looking at that and looking at the attitude of the republicans what were hammering on gay and lesbian voters and with pat robertson and pat buchanan from the pulpit of the republican national convention, between those two attitudes, those polarizing rejection and acceptance, a national gay block vote formed for the first time and that affected the election in a decisive way. >> rose: what did you do? >> i wrote an op-ed piece for the "new york times" saying it had a huge psychological effect and might affect the election and i wrote it and thinking about it the week after i wrote if this is going to happen, why isn't this a book? and if it's a book why shouldn't i try to do it? >> i remember a friend of mine saying why don't you make
first paul tsongas started talking about gay issues then bill clinton appeared at the palace theater in may of '92 before a gay audience, before television cameras and national political reporters and made some very concrete promises to the gay crowd he was the presumive nominee then and somebody whose position hadn't done that before and it seemed to me looking at that and looking at the attitude of the republicans what were hammering on gay and lesbian voters and with pat robertson and pat...
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look at the same level of opposition against bill clinton. bill clinton was impeached and set aside whether you think he deserves to be, the i think he had a very impassioned republican party that is not interested in compromise for now quite some time. so i don't think it's mostly specific or personal to obama although i think there are certain aspects that are specific to him. i think it matters he doesn't need to run again. i think that means he'll be willing to hold out and be tougher in some ways unanimous his first term. one something that his allies need to run again. democrats in the house and in the senate and he has to keep them on his team so he can't say i'm willing to do all these things to break republican opposition to compromise. >> reporter: republicans also say we have a majority in the house, we won our elections too, thank you very much mr. president. >> that's right. >> rose: let me talk about the economy and the growth of the economy. does -- look at experience in europe, look at what britain has done and look at germany
look at the same level of opposition against bill clinton. bill clinton was impeached and set aside whether you think he deserves to be, the i think he had a very impassioned republican party that is not interested in compromise for now quite some time. so i don't think it's mostly specific or personal to obama although i think there are certain aspects that are specific to him. i think it matters he doesn't need to run again. i think that means he'll be willing to hold out and be tougher in...
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clinton also i guess you could say got welfare reform in the second term, did he not? >> actually, it was before the election in 1996 and he created his own problems as we know and that's one of the grat tragedies of modern american history is this enormous man, the best politician since lyndon johnson to hold the office who ran into the impeachment issue and ended up squandering at least a year and a half, two years. so -- and i think the other -- the most recent example i think by pretty common consent, president bush did better after what he called his thumping in 2006 when he finally fired donald rumsfeld, brought in bob gates and began to move to slightly more of a center position before the economy collapsed. >> rose: so what's the challenge for president obama in the second term? >> it's mense, brendan sullivan one of the great defense lawyers here in washington always says when you're in a negotiation and you have the upper hand as obama has had in the first term and may continue in the second term, when you have that upper hand and you beat your opponent you n
clinton also i guess you could say got welfare reform in the second term, did he not? >> actually, it was before the election in 1996 and he created his own problems as we know and that's one of the grat tragedies of modern american history is this enormous man, the best politician since lyndon johnson to hold the office who ran into the impeachment issue and ended up squandering at least a year and a half, two years. so -- and i think the other -- the most recent example i think by...
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but for many of them were the same people that reacted viscerally to bill clinton. >> rose: i agree, but was it an issue for you. did you say look, we have to figure out how to get passed this. >> i think that our conviction was always that there was a majority there, for whom this was not an issue. and that there was a majority there for this president and that especially, and that would be especially true if the participation was great among all voters. you know what happened in 2010 was youth voters, for example, under 30 which had been 18% of the electorate in 2008 dropped to 12%. well, if that was going to happen in 2012, we were going to lose the election. so our count, we had confidence that the more people participated, the better we would do. so you know, this is-- these visceral divides in our country have been, are historic in nature. but i didn't think they represent the essence of who we are. and we've always worked through them. and i think we can work through them now. but we have to deal with some of the structural issues that impact on our politics. >> rose: like wha
but for many of them were the same people that reacted viscerally to bill clinton. >> rose: i agree, but was it an issue for you. did you say look, we have to figure out how to get passed this. >> i think that our conviction was always that there was a majority there, for whom this was not an issue. and that there was a majority there for this president and that especially, and that would be especially true if the participation was great among all voters. you know what happened in...
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why should we run that kind of story which to me is the same thing four years late we are bill clinton? >> we know what works in terms of getting people to change their attitude. two things, one is protection of risk and the other is perception of the socially unacceptable. and all the studies show that. and that trend is happening, we're trying to accelerate it. we're trying to take people out of the system so that don't go into the pipeline and end up being addicts. it's very hard for me to see how you can get people to understand the risk of using cocaine without demonizing addiction-- not the addict. addiction. addiction is a horrible end point. horrible, what it does. we're beginning to learn, by the way, that it's worse that we thought it was. we're going to find out cocaine is so toxic that it's killing people irreversibly. we didn't know that. as a matter of fact during the carter administration it was thought that it wasn't even addictive. we now know it's not only addictive it is a horror in terms of what it was. that's why i can't abide people who talk about legalization. i
why should we run that kind of story which to me is the same thing four years late we are bill clinton? >> we know what works in terms of getting people to change their attitude. two things, one is protection of risk and the other is perception of the socially unacceptable. and all the studies show that. and that trend is happening, we're trying to accelerate it. we're trying to take people out of the system so that don't go into the pipeline and end up being addicts. it's very hard for...
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maybe bill clinton. >> yeah, the clintons. >> rose: the clintons, exactly. does the world still look on the united states as the place that they'd like to see offer real global leadership? >> absolutely. it's-- it's almost daunting because they really do expect to us get our act together, and whether it's global security, global invention, doing governance right, they look to the united states. >> rose: and what do they expect from us? >> they expect to us get our -- >> rose: by example as well as need. >> absolute. they expect, whether it's towfd disease, whether it's how you take care of your people as they get older. how you do education. how you keep driving innovation, how you deal with climate change, they actually expect the united states to take the lead. you know, as much as china is growing, nobody looks to them as a primary role model. . >> rose: because they see the things they do that are not very attractive or because there are so many possibilities of social tension within a country that large? >> ironically it's partly because china is so inw
maybe bill clinton. >> yeah, the clintons. >> rose: the clintons, exactly. does the world still look on the united states as the place that they'd like to see offer real global leadership? >> absolutely. it's-- it's almost daunting because they really do expect to us get our act together, and whether it's global security, global invention, doing governance right, they look to the united states. >> rose: and what do they expect from us? >> they expect to us get our...